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With stories from paradise and hard-won lessons in seamanship, Taleisin's Tales reflects back to the first miles Lin and Larry gained together on their second cruising boat, taking the reader from launching and sea trials between California and the Sea of Cortez to French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Tonga and New Zealand. In the style readers have come to know, Taleisin's Tales relates stories sometimes harrowing, sometimes cautionary, sometimes hilarious, often heart-warming - and shows how slowing the pace brings unexpected moments of clarity and joy, and that sailing across an ocean on a small boat is not easy but, with the right partner and attitude, can be beautifully rewarding. Taleisin's Tales takes the reader from Bull Canyon, California, to Kawau Island, New Zealand, where, after almost 28 years of voyaging on Taleisin, Lin and Larry now live with a publishing company, a boatyard and a fifteen-foot Herreshoff sloop.

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Lin Pardey has done it again! Her first full-length cruising narrative in many years is as fresh and relevant as those tales that entertained and inspired a generation of sailors decades ago. Once you step aboard, you won t want to step off again. </p>--Charley Doane Sail Magazine

Lin Pardey has done it again! Her first full-length cruising narrative in many years is as fresh and relevant as those tales that entertained and inspired a generation of sailors decades ago. Once you step aboard, you won't want to step off again. --Charley Doane Sail Magazine I'm not sure which writer I admire more: the young girl in lust with tomorrow's cruise or the respected sailing sage looking back on a life well lived on a small boat cluttered with large dreams. One thing I know is that Lin's pen has been whispering to me for over forty years now--and this is one of her best. --Author, voyager Cap't Fatty Goodlander Taleisin's Tales captures a sweet moment in the sailing career of the first couple of cruising --a time when Lin and Larry didn't quite know their boat, or each other in it; a time when Taleisin was still a fair-weather craft whose dinghy threatened to come loose in the first blow and whose locker latches still failed to secure their contents; a time before two mere mortals had grown into the legends they would become. Through forty years of writing, Lin Pardey's gift has always been to capture the joyful metaphysics of an adventuresome love affair in the bronze-and-wood details of boomkins and bobstays. Talesin's Tales takes us through the early steps, uncertain at first but ever more confidently toward farther horizons, steps that ultimately lead to the one shared life which just may turn out to be the happiest in all of our voyaging literature. --Tim Murphy Cruising World -Lin Pardey has done it again! Her first full-length cruising narrative in many years is as fresh and relevant as those tales that entertained and inspired a generation of sailors decades ago. Once you step aboard, you won't want to step off again.- --Charley Doane -Sail Magazine - -I'm not sure which writer I admire more: the young girl in lust with tomorrow's cruise or the respected sailing sage looking back on a life well lived on a small boat cluttered with large dreams. One thing I know is that Lin's pen has been whispering to me for over forty years now--and this is one of her best.- --Author, voyager -Cap't Fatty Goodlander - Lin Pardey has done it again! Her first full-length cruising narrative in many years is as fresh and relevant as those tales that entertained and inspired a generation of sailors decades ago. Once you step aboard, you won t want to step off again. --Charley Doane Sail Magazine Taleisin's Talescaptures a sweet moment in the sailing career of the first couple of cruising a time when Lin and Larry didn't quite know their boat, or each other in it; a time whenTaleisinwas still a fair-weather craft whose dinghy threatened to come loose in the first blow and whose locker latches still failed to secure their contents; a time before two mere mortals had grown into the legends they would become. Through forty years of writing, Lin Pardey's gift has always been to capture the joyful metaphysics of an adventuresome love affair in the bronze-and-wood details of boomkins and bobstays.Talesin's Talestakes us through the early steps, uncertain at first but ever more confidently toward farther horizons, steps that ultimately lead to the one shared life which just may turn out to be the happiest in all of our voyaging literature. --Tim Murphy Cruising World

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Lin, with her husband Larry is world renowned for her sailing exploits. Author of eleven best selling books on sailing and seamanship, several hundred articles which have been translated into five different languages, she has been keynote speaker in at the Pacific Northwest center of the Sea, the University of Houston Woman's Forum and Egyptian commission on future tourism.Her previous book, Bull Canyon, a memoir published in 2013 received three literary awards

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